Andy Minuth

On 19/09/2017 at 9:23 AM, Margus Voll said:

I'm looking at formats and do not see any support for DNG files in BL 5.

Am i missing something?

DNG works for sure. 

Good work, Margus. 

The first teaser of Housewife got released. Probably my favourite work on a feature this year. It was shot on Alexa with ARRI / Zeiss Master Anamorphics and lots of haze on the set. A handful of shots were done with a Blackmagic Cinema Camera. Graded on Baselight. 

The director Can Evrenol asked me for a vintage look for that film. So I diffused the highlights, selected a soft scaling algorithm and created a custom Show-LUT based on several film print emulations. Additonally to counter the flatness caused by the haze, we added lots of grain and some dirt to the picture, especially in the highlights. 

Director: Can Evrenol  /  DP: Tayman Tekin  /  Gaffer: Mehmet Cemal Toz  /  Starring: Clémentine Poidatz, David Sakurai

https://vimeo.com/230499166

BTW: Better watched in fullscreen instead of with the white background of the forum. 

On 09/08/2017 at 0:27 PM, Orash Rahnema said:

True that the surround is part of the colour space, but wasn't that the reason why computer screen manufacturer choose a 2.2. gamma?
To compensate for a brighter surround? 

That was my point, that a gamma correction might not be necessary. If it becomes necessary it can still be done in the playback path or the display. For example by calibrating a display to Rec.1886 or sRGB depending on the surround. 

7 hours ago, Ildus gabidullin said:

Zootopia PIXAR

LEGO Batman Movie Animal Logic ACES

I think the Lego Batman movie was done with Baselight. (http://filmlight.ltd.uk/customers/case-studies/legobatman.php)

DigitalVision has a list of feature film credits on their webpage.

I don't do different passes for sRGB. Client gets just one Master in Rec.1886. One reason You already mentioned: because the surround is part of a color-space (bright vs dim in this case).

The other point is: How do You know that the client will not upload his "Video ProRes" to YouTube? And when it is on YouTube, what if someone watches it on their Television, etc. You can go on like that...

From my point of view, the player should do the correct gamma correction for the display. So I try to just give proper Rec.1886 masters with correct metadata.

Hi Thomas, sometimes keying the shadows and adding a skin-soften tool and some noise helps. 

Yes that behaviour is correct, Emily.

FilmGrade is intended to be used with a DRT / LUT in the output path which takes care of the shadow/highlight roll-off. 
I explained the origins of the different grading tools in the first half of my BaseGrade article.

If You are looking for an Exposure / Contrast tool with built in highlight / shadow roll-off within Baselight, You should try out 'Technical Grade'. But please be aware that 'Technical Grade' clips the signal at 0 and 1 without the possibility to recover it in a downstream layer. So if You add too much contrast before, You might loose some part of Your signal.

Filmlight released a video about new color management features in V5

17 hours ago, Abby Bader said:

Andy, can you extract the information you see and use it for something?

Abby, its more for debugging. I use zview rarely to check out a LUT. You can see if it was made with a formula or with measured data, for example. And if there are 'weird things' happening, you might find the reason while examining the cube. But for daily grading work I see no benefits, more if You are building LUTs yourself. 

With the Truelight zview tool you can visualise a LUT. You can move around in 3D space, pick individual points, see In-Out vectors of the points, etc. But you cannot change it.

You can use the 'Temporal Degrain' operator for it. For heavy noise use the extended ranges. When motion artefacts get too nasty you should try to increase the 'Flow Radius', but this will also make it much slower. Additionally there is also a spatial DeNoiser hidden in the advanced parameters. Also check the channel weights, because sometimes the noise is concentrated in one channel (blue or red). Usually it is best to DeNoise early in the stack. 

In some occasions I use the 'soften' tool for it, but only in specific areas e.g. keyed shadows.

I use 'Median' to clean up mattes, but if it works in Your case then its okay.

If I just want to tackle chroma noise, I apply the spatial tool of the 'Temporal Degrain' in 'RLab' color space. 

And last but not least: In Baselight 5 there will be a completely new and more powerful DeNoise tool, that is optimised for the noise of digital cameras. 

I also think it was to achieve the R-rating. In the Japanese version of the film, the scene is in color. 

http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=1588

I coloured that one about a year ago: 

Our approach was to boost the reflexions on the car, which gives a nice texture and attracts the eye. So on many shots I boosted the contrast on specific regions of the car with tracked shapes. And always have an eye for the tires, so that they are not melting with a dark background. 

Welcome, Monica 

Hey there, some time ago I put together a new reel that presents my work on commercials during the last two years at 1000 Volt in Istanbul. All work was done with Baselight and a Dolby PRM display.

First You have to find out, if the controller is defect (1) or the disks themselves having data corruption (2).

1: In this case the disk is not visible to the computer at all. You should check with several computers/OS. Like Frank recommended, replacing the controller chips is easy and helped me as well a couple of times.

2: In this case You can see at least the chipset of the disk in Your operating system. My recommendation is to rescue the data with the free software 'TestDisk'. I used it successfully several times (with OS X and Linux). At times 100% of the data got rescued. Please google the correct usage of it. First You should make an image of Your defect drive for example.

Disclaimer: Complete data loss might occur. For very important data please consult an expert.

Most people use dedicated restoration software.

Digital Vision Phoenix 

PFClean

MTI DRS NOVA

HS-ART DIAMANT

These are the main players as far as I know. Some people use compositing tools like Nuke.

I also think that going with Flanders is a good idea with these specs. 

On 5/14/2017 at 11:36 AM, Abby Bader said:

Can you post the tutorial link @Andy Minuth? 

Ah shame on me, seems like I forgot to put the link to my last post. It's been quite a while, I don't remember which tutorial I meant, but probably it's this one from the official Filmlight page: https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/training/resources/baselight/FLT-BL-0032-Baselight-16.php

It's difficult to point out the differences between RLab and Base Grade, because these are two completely different things. RLab is a colour space in Baselight, which You can use for special processing. And Base Grade is a colour grading operator. 

About Exposure: It depends on the working colour space, the source colour space is irrelevant in that case. I am not a colour scientist but AFAIK: For ACEScc it should work linear, but for the other usual log transfer functions like Cineon, LogC, S-LogX, etc. it will not.

Hi Sushil, I have one comment: The second shot feels to heavily manipulated to me (sky and flare). Especially with the direct cut to the third shot, which also has a sky gradient but feels much more natural. The moment You see the third shot, You think something was wrong with the second one. 

Just my 2 cents. 

FYI: I wrote an article about that topic here on Lowepost. 

Very nice reel, Nikola. 

I am a bit disappointed that they set the 'Legacy' setting as the default in the new version. Which is the wrong setting.